A viral video of two teens fighting at a NJ mall and the stark difference in how police respond to the pair — one a 14-year-old Black male and the other a 15-year-old initially described as a white male — is prompting harsh criticism and investigations.
Wednesday he was “deeply disturbed by what appears to be racially disparate treatment in the video.” He noted the work in New Jersey to improve trust and relations between police departments and the communities they serve; the state in recent years has instituted a host of
The NAACP’s Smith issued a statement calling for the immediate removal of the officers. "The time for the governor and attorney general to put a stop to this type of behavior by the police is now,” Smith said. Michael Brownstein, an associate professor in philosophy at John Jay who studies implicit bias, said that trainings designed to undo bias in law enforcement are "not going to do anything if the people you're working with don't want to be unbiased or don't see themselves as potentially acting in prejudiced ways."
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